Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:02:32 GMT From: "Nathan T. Weeks" <weeks@iastate.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: standards/173087: pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format Message-ID: <201210252102.q9PL2Wxt085871@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201210252110.q9PLA1V7004561@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 173087 >Category: standards >Synopsis: pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-standards >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 25 21:10:00 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Nathan T. Weeks >Release: 9.0 >Organization: USDA-ARS >Environment: FreeBSD hostname.private 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format. Support is both useful (e.g., to get around the 8GB file size limit of the ustar interchange format) and required for conformance with SUSv3/SUSv4. >How-To-Repeat: $ pax -x pax pax: Unknown -x format: pax pax: Known -x formats are: bcpio cpio sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar .. >Fix: Ideally, use libarchive(3); although it would probably be more straightforward to implement the (partial) pax interchange support from Mac OS X pax: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/file_cmds/file_cmds-220.7/pax/pax_format.c >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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